Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. One reason is because a medical data breach is more valuable than a hack of, say, consumers’ credit card identities. There will be a slew of data security solutions to evaluate at this conference.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “First, do no harm” is a key M.O. in health care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

” In the best of all possible medical payments worlds, U.S. consumers would prefer to pay those bills online through their doctor’s or hospital’s websites (for 38% of patients). That garners only 5% of patients’ preferences. This is the modus operandi for bill payment among U.S. Mailing a paper check?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age. AARP sponsored the poll.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Most patients want personalized chronic disease support, help with understanding and dealing with specific health metrics for personalized health metrics. Two-thirds of people want to receive medication reminders, too. Less than half say they’re currently getting that support from health care providers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable. Only weight and medication tracking had a majority of people using analog formats to track. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

The post A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019… and a nod to Microsoft appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. It won’t be a total solution to the significant housing/wage gap in greater Seattle, but should inspire more creative solutions to this problem which other tech-rich communities also share.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In 2019, J.D. Power called telehealth, “the best consumer healthcare experience you’ve never tried.” The 2021 version leverages remote patient monitoring, on-demand medical exams, care navigation, medication adherence, chronic care management, and education personalized to the patient and caregiver.

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Practice Builders

JANUARY 19, 2024

UX design transcends aesthetics by placing a strong emphasis on accuracy in content reliability, speed in crucial interactions, and precision in the delivery of medical information. A user-friendly interface that resonates with intuitive navigation and clear information presentation is the first step towards an enhanced patient experience.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. medical trend growth projected for 2019 that will impact healthcare providers, insurers, and suppliers to the industry. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments). Zero and Roman are also part of telehealth.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then in 2019, Medscape added the word “suicide” to the title of the annual assessment. The specialty-mix at the top-end of un-wellbeing shifted toward critical care, rheumatology, infectious disease, and pulmonary medicine which hadn’t featured as prominently in 2019/20. Four in ten U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

Most consumers would be willing to try an FDA-approved app or online to treat a medical condition, as well as receiving hospital care at home if would be less costly. The report outlines health/care industry issues for 2019, with a strong focus on digital health. One-half of consumers would be likely to try such an FDA-cleared device.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Together, the two reports from J.D.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

People would especially welcome virtual services from traditional medical care providers, as opposed to virtual care from a technology or social media company, a retailer, or a medical startup. But even trust in the most trusted steward, my doctor, eroded between 2019 and 2020. Three-fourths of U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Thus, even with health insurance coverage through jobs, workers are dealing with affordability issues of paying for health care as medical costs take a position crowding out other household spending like housing, utilities, and education. Financial health for patients-as-payors is part of the overall health/care experience.

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Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

The role of HCAHPS in determining reimbursement Since 2012, HCAHPS’ patient satisfaction scores have been pivotal in hospital reimbursement through the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. In 2019, $1.9 According to the program, hospitals with higher HCAHPS scores earn higher reimbursements.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

adults 18 and over in September 2019. In 2019, few health care providers have adopted voice assistants into their workflows. The last graph illustrates consumers’ concerns about privacy and voice assistants: nearly one-half of people were moderately or very concerned about privacy and smart speakers as of September 2019.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As the university paper the Daily Orange reported in March 2024, “In an effort to increase access and affordability of birth control at SUNY Upstate Medical University, third-year medical students Serena Schmitt and Olivia Preston have worked to open an on-campus access point for birth control: an emergency contraceptive vending machine.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

adults 23 years of age and over in September and October 2019. One-half of consumers also believe people would be more likely to be healthier longer with care delivered at home, and nearly half of people also think people could be more adherent to medical advice and less stressed in the process.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

.” The official description of the program is, “The launch of voice-activated general medical virtual care on supported Echo devices, such as an Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. will now be able to connect with a Teladoc care provider 24/7 from supported Echo devices for general medical needs. Note that in 2019, 7.5%

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

I have, at CES 2019, when I sat down with Sean Carney, Chief Designer at Philips. I was grateful to Sean for spending time with me at CES 2019 in Las Vegas to brainstorm the role of design in health/care. I ask you to invest just two minutes to see this to get a sense of how design thinking can re-make patient and clinician experience.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Top-line, Accenture points to four pillars on which the pharma industry can “reinvent its relevance,” as the report title suggests: To express greater empathy, understanding the patient experience of delaying treatment, financial impacts, and mental health challenges the pandemic has caused.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. This is a very important pillar for health consumer engagement and patient experience.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

AUGUST 8, 2023

While, historically, providers have been financially compensated for the volume of services they provide, it has been increasingly recognized that a holistic view of patients’ health includes additional lifestyle factors and results in a healthier population while reducing the cost of care. The data for the 1.4

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. Readings are visible to patients and transmitted to the physician’s office.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. Cost influenced two-thirds of patients in terms of their satisfaction with a physician or a health system. Given a $60K median U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Its meaning was, “insurance against loss through illness of the insured,” especially, “insurance providing compensation for medical expenses.”

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

Another aspect of patients’ health care financing is medication costs, which the poll also assessed. Those majority-statistics are shown in the bar chart, whose top-line was that cost was an important factor in health consumers’ decisions whether or not to seek coronavirus-related medical care.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

Of the $401 billion that will flow through retailers for consumer technology products, many of the fastest-emerging categories will play a role as platforms for health and medical care at home and in wearable tech. Consumer Technology Sales and Forecasts, July 2019 , from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

consumers age 18 and over in August and September 2019. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. Healthcare Consumer Experience Study.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults would be uncomfortable if their health care provider relied on AI for their medical care, according to the Pew Research Group. The other side of that coin is that only 2 in 5 people thought AI would lead to better patient outcomes. million medical records ). Three in five U.S. public health, as well.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Self-care is the new health care as patients, now consumers at greater financial risk for medical spending, are learning. At #CES2019, I’m on the lookout for digital technologies that can help people adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that can help consumers save money on medical care and enhance quality of life-years.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One contributor to lackluster return-to-healthcare volumes is patients’ forgoing care due to cost — which Trilliant Health points out has overtaken COVID-19 concerns as the key driver for avoiding medical care services. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Among these events are Amazon’s plan to acquire One Medical , Apple’s publication of the paper, Empowering People to Live a Healthier Day , and other news that, together with these line items, signal a shake-up of American health care as we know it. The timing of my return to the U.S.

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